Nymphaster arduennensis Peron 1887 (sea star)

Asteroidea - Valvatida - Goniasteridae

Alternative combination: Goniaster arduennensis

Full reference: A. Peron. 1887. Notes pour servir à l'histoire du terrain de craie dans le sud-est du bassin anglo-parisien, avec notes et descriptions d'Echinides nouveaux ou peu connus par MM Gauthier et Lambert. Bulletin de la Société des Sciences Historiques et Naturelles de l'Yonne 41:145-224

Belongs to Nymphaster according to G. Breton 1992

See also Jagt et al. 2021 and Peron 1887

Sister taxa: Nymphaster albensis, Nymphaster alseni, Nymphaster coombii, Nymphaster dutempleanus, Nymphaster fontis, Nymphaster humilis, Nymphaster magistrorum, Nymphaster marginatus, Nymphaster miocenicus, Nymphaster mudzborgh, Nymphaster obtusus, Nymphaster ornatus, Nymphaster peakei, Nymphaster rectus, Nymphaster spenceri, Nymphaster studlandensis, Nymphaster wrighti

Type specimen: Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, MHNH R 53997

Ecology: epifaunal detritivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Nymphaster arduennensis in the database

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